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Mapping in Vancouver

Due to the release of mapping data by the government of Canada, the GeoBase_Import was completed on 2010-02-12. This import was a non-destructive merge import, where existing OSM data is left alone and only new data is imported in. The import for Vancouver and surrounding areas (including Whistler) was completed on February 12, 2010, and much work has been done since to correct any errors and fill out missing data.

High-quality aerial photography is available for much of the region from pnorman's server. This imagery is available in josm as "British Columbia Mosaic" and is both higher-resolution and more accurate than Bing imagery, and should usually be preferred.

As well as the 1 degree x 1 degree OSM tile here for the 1st half and here for the 2nd. From ComputerTeddy's map. It's a zip file, just needs to be unziped. You can use sendmap to get the maps on your garmin device.

GIS sources by city

A number of cities have GIS and orthography available. Just because a city is listed in this table does not mean the data can be used with OSM, this is a listing of cities, not usable sources.

Table fully updated Jul 2017 by alarobric. Several new datasets are now available under OGL-CA type licenses.

Now OGL-BC 2.0 with names changed to New Westminster.
Contacted by alarobric and they added the following to the license. Based on licensing discussion for Vancouver I believe this makes it appropriate for use in OSM. "Please note with reference to the exemptions listed below, all datasets published in the City of New Westminster Open Data collection are released in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act of British Columbia."

University of British Columbia

There are several mappers at UBC working on adding more detail to the campus (many bike racks and paths).

Yahoo WMS imagery has a significant distortion of up to 50 m in some areas of UBC which has caused problems in the past. The Bing imagery is much better aligned with reality as well as being higher resolution. Most of UBC is accurate on Bing to within 5 m. The "British Columbia Mosaic" imagery is still higher in quality than Bing's in most cases.

A large import form Plant Operations data was made by pnorman in Feb-March 2011.

South campus is currently heavily mapped by cgaspoz (Apr 2011). Use an imagery offset of Easting: -5.286085624756909 / Northing: -0.22160888976934734 for the south campus.